Kate Boucher

6th - 8th May

£390

Dark Matter: An Exploration of Charcoal Through Landscape

This course is suitable for all levels; beginners and those who have some skills with charcoal and want to develop them further. This three-day course will begin by getting to know your tools: the types of charcoal, the mark-making tools that can be used with them, how can they all be combined to create different effects.

Whether this is the first time you've used charcoal or you're refamiliarizing yourself with the media, or you want to deepen your existing skills, it's always good to begin with this foundation. There will then be a series of demonstration lead set tasks to build your ‘mark-making language’ skills. Each student will use their own imagery making the tasks personal and individual.

Kate will show examples of her own work, and ways to use sketchbooks and basic photography to record source material as a basis for your drawings. You will be working with photographs that you take on-site to make a personal response to the landscape of Lund.

You will be able to work in a range of sizes to suit your ideas. This course is designed to be dense with techniques at the start then moving to supported, independent working so each of you can move towards imagery, styles, and scales that you become interested in.

Kate has two courses at The Lund in 2025- what’s the difference? The course in July will be in the Drawing Barn - for people who’d like to work BIG. This course in May will be running in our main studio, working on benchtop scale - a strong emphasis on introducing materials and mark making techniques.

Lunches and refreshments included. Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)

About Kate

Kate Boucher is an artist, tutor and author who specialises in building students' creative confidence in a supportive learning environment.

She studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1990s, graduating from West Dean College with a Master of Fine Art 2016. She is a QEST Scholar and has received several awards. Her work has been exhibited with that of David Nash RA, Alice Kettle and Matthew Burrows, and is held in private collections internationally. She recently exhibited with Glyndebourne’s Gallery 94, The New Art Gallery Walsall, A Generous Space 2, and in September 2022 Petersfield Museum & Gallery, Alison Crowther & Kate Boucher: Traces in a Landscape. Her books ‘Drawing with Charcoal’ and Making Charcoal: A practical Guide for Artists are widely available.

Instagram: @misskateboucher

website: kateboucher.com